In this paper we develop high order asymptotic preserving methods for the spatially inhomogeneous quantum Boltzmann equation. We follow the work in Li and Pareschi [18] where asymptotic preserving exponential Runge-Kutta methods for the classical inhomogeneous Boltzmann equation were constructed. A major difficulty here is related to the non Gaussian steady states characterizing the quantum kin...

Recently, several authors have tried to extend the usual concepts of thermodynamics and kinetic theory in order to deal with distributions that can be non-Boltzmannian. For dissipative systems described by the canonical ensemble, this leads to the notion of nonlinear Fokker-Planck equation (T.D. Frank, Non Linear Fokker-Planck Equations, Springer, Berlin, 2005). In this paper, we review general...

We show that the study of the collective oscillations in a harmonic trap provides a very sensitive test of the equation of state of a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance. Using a scaling approach, whose high accuracy is proven by comparison with exact hydrodynamic solutions, the frequencies of the lowest compressional modes are calculated at T=0 in terms of a dimensionless parameter characteriz...

The band structure of graphene near the Fermi surface is often well described by the effective mass approximation. In this approach electron wave function obeys the Diractype equation. To describe a number of effects it is necessary to supplement the equation with boundary conditions. Using the Hermiticity and the time reversal symmetry we derive the phenomenological boundary conditions for a m...

We construct the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter using the relativistic mean field (RMF) theory in the wide density, temperature range with various proton fractions for the use of supernova simulation and the neutron star calculations. We first construct the EOS of homogeneous nuclear matter. We use then the Thomas-Fermi approximation to describe inhomogeneous matter, where heavy nucl...

Starting from Enskog equation of hard spheres of mass m and diameter D under the gravity g, we first derive the exact equation of motion for the equilibrium density profile at a temperature T and examine its solutions via the gradient expansion. The solutions exist only when βμ ≤ μo ≈ 21.756 in 2 dimensions and μo ≈ 15.299 in 3 dimensions, where μ is the dimensionless initial layer thickness an...

The electronic properties of a single layer of graphite, graphene1)–4) have attracted much attention due to the “relativistic” character of π-electrons near the Fermi level. The energy band structure of graphene exhibits a linear energy dispersion relation around the two inequivalent, hexagonal corners of the first Brillouin zone in the k-space (the K and K′ points).5),6) The wavefunction (Hami...

The electronic shell structure of triangular, hexagonal and round graphene quantum dots (flakes) near the Fermi level has been studied using a tight-binding method. The results show that close to the Fermi level the shell structure of a triangular flake is that of free massless particles, and that triangles with an armchair edge show an additional sequence of levels (“ghost states”). These leve...

We revisit the issue of superconductivity at the quantum-critical point (QCP) between a 2D paramagnet and a spin-density-wave metal with ordering momentum (π, π). This problem is highly nontrivial because the system at criticality displays a non-Fermi-liquid behavior and because the effective coupling constant λ for the pairing is generally of order one, even when the actual interaction is smal...

Phase transitions of nuclear matter to the quark-gluon plasma with subsequent restoration of chiral symmetry have been widely discussed in the literature. We investigate the possibility for occurrence of dense nuclear matter with a dibaryon Bose-Einstein condensate as an intermediate state below the quark-gluon phase transition. An exact analysis of this state of matter is presented in a one-di...